# BirdSift, free: Local business search API

> Describe a trade and a city. BirdSift searches Google Places and flags businesses with no real website, or one that needs a redo.

BirdSift's Free plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. BirdSift's docs list 3: Address, Website, Category.
We haven't run BirdSift through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 492 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.25 or less per 1,000 places. [269 local business search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) [mitbbs.ai's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.
[IBLead's $53 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places, with no charge per call. You get as many places as IBLead's rate limit allows. [Amazon Location Service's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt) and [SphereScout](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.birdsift.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.birdsift.com/v1/searches`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.birdsift.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.birdsift.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#post-v1searches
- Sold by: BirdSift (https://www.birdsift.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: no limit
- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Draft outreach email for a saved lead

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Describe a trade and a city. BirdSift searches Google Places and flags businesses with no real website, or one that needs a redo.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of, the Service by anyone else. You will not scrape, resell, or redistribute data obtained through the Service in bulk, attempt to bypass credit limits, reverse-engineer the Service, or use it in a manner that violates Google's Places Platform Terms of Service or any other third-party provider terms we rely on. [...] You are responsible for complying with applicable laws (including anti-spam and data protection laws) when contacting businesses using leads found through the Service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 10 results
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: queries[].location, queries[].category, max_results, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: filters.min_rating, filters.no_website, filters.not_mobile_friendly, filters.outdated_website, filters.stale_content
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/searches

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, lead ID, name, category, address, website, email, outreach status, added at, has website, mobile friendly, outdated website, credits used, has more

## BirdSift's plans (4)

- [BirdSift, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BirdSift, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/29-pack/llms.txt): $290.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BirdSift, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/79-pack/llms.txt): $158.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BirdSift, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/199-pack/llms.txt): $99.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, live

## BirdSift's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/searches`: [BirdSift, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/free/llms.txt)

## BirdSift's APIs (1)

- [BirdSift Local business search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/free/llms.txt)

## BirdSift: local business search API alternatives

[BirdSift alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/birdsift-alternatives.txt)

We list BirdSift's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to BirdSift in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [BirdSift, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/birdsift/199-pack/llms.txt): $99.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [TechForce Agents, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/techforce-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [BestTime, $96 monthly, Pro Venues, 50 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/96-monthly-pro-venues-50-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $96.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [NoseForLeads, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/noseforleads/199-pack/llms.txt): $99.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [OutreachPilot, $3,984 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/outreachpilot/3984-yearly/llms.txt): $110.667 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://birdsift.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.birdsift.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.birdsift.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.birdsift.com/docs/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.birdsift.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.birdsift.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.birdsift.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing